Now that I'm 18 I can post my success story on MFP ;-)

Sorry, that title just tickles me because I was kicked off of this website for being under 18. But today's my birthday

Anywho, if I was talking about my 18th birthday in 2011 this is what I would've said: "When I turn 18, I'm gonna go to the gas station and buy my first pack of smokes and a lotto ticket. Then, I'm gonna pick out a tattoo and head over to the tattoo shop. YES!!!!"

But after I've joined MFP, my whole outlook has changed. When I think about smoking, I smack myself because it will inhibit my jogging. Lotto tickets are so small compared to what really matters to me in life. And that tattoo? Well, I will get that when I reach my goal!

Let me tell you my story: I was a fat kid. Sometimes I look back on my life and think, why didn't anyone keep me from eating so much? Why did my parents even keep packaged foods in the house for their kids? But there's no need to play the blame game. I had eaten myself into being FAT.

I have always been an extremely tall girl. I still remember the moment in 4th grade when everyone in class measured themselves; I was the tallest in the class, at 5'0".

During my middle school years is when I put on most of the weight. But still, people would look at me and say "you're just a big person". I was chubby, for all anyone cared. But I wasn't fat.

Sure, my weight was spread out over my tall frame, I was pretty darn flabby all over and completely out of shape. When I had to run a mile for gym class my sophomore year, it took me 12 minutes between jogging and walking it.

My highest weight was somewhere up around the 220s before I started my job my junior year, but when I started MFP I was around 210.

I have wanted to be skinny and tried to limit what I ate through most of my high school years, and I never though MFP would work. When I joined in February of 2012 and saw some of the weight drop off a bit, I was excited beyond belief.

I got an inner ear infection in April that made my jaw swell up and I couldn't really eat for a week. I had my neck propped in a certain way so that I could breathe and I never wanted to leave the couch, even to eat. All that fasting successfully dropped 5 pounds off of me that week, and in a way it had cleansed me to where I didn't want to shovel gross food into my stomach all the time when I didn't really need it.

I haven't come across the same trials as other users on this website, I have found. I lose 2 pounds a week minimum, and when I ONLY lose 2 pounds I get super mad at myself. I always shyed away from sports because I was a fat kid, but through this journey I have found that I am SUPER competitive. I WANT TO GET TO MY GOAL. SO BAD.

Though this whole post is majorly ironic because last week was the first week I have not lost a pound. Instead, I have been bouncing between 169 and 170 aaaaallll week. Even when I let myself go the week of my graduation because i had relatives in town, etc. I found myself dropping the pounds earlier the next week.

Maybe posting my first success story will reinspire me to push myself harder, eh?


SW: 210lbs (BMI: 29.3)
CW: 169.8lbs (BMI: 23.7)
Height: 5'11"
Starting size: dress 17/18, pants 17, shirt L/XL womens
Current size: dress 13/14, pants 15, shirt M/L womens
Forms of exercise: running and yoga!!!

(BEFORE PHOTO) This may be one of my senior photos, but it is definitely not the highlight of my life. And this is the one I thought I looked best in


(BEFORE PHOTO) You don't even want to know what position I had my head in to make myself look like that.


(BEFORE PHOTO)


(-15ish pounds)


(-20 pounds)


(-mid 20s pounds)


(-34 pounds) My graduation dress!!


(-40 pounds) That is a shirt from FIFTH GRADE!!!! AAAAHHHH!!!!